Paris Palais de Tokyo is not the capital of Japan is almost irrelevant. The fact that it separates from the Seine River Street (Avenue, New York) until 1945 was called the Tokyo Avenue. Also named and built next to the palace.

In the competition for the design of the palace was attended by 128 candidates, including Tony Garnier and Le Corbusier. Won the architects Jean-Claude Dondel and André Hubert, who proposed building in Art Deco style. It was erected for the World Exhibition of Arts and Technology, which opened in Paris in May 1937. As part of the events planned to open at the French Palace Tokyo Paris Museum of Modern Art, and we bought for him a great number of works of painters, sculptors, graphic artists. However, the project that something went wrong, already prepared the collection was transferred to the Petit Palais.

After World War II it became clear that the area of ​​the Petit Palais to house the collection sorely lacking. The situation worsened in 1953 when the number of exhibits was added to the generous gift of a large art collector Dr. Girardin. Then it was decided to return to the idea of ​​creating a museum of contemporary art in the palace of Tokyo.

Today at the Paris Museum of Modern Art has about eight thousand exhibits representing the main currents of art of the last century. Historical section filled with the works of the Fauves, the Cubists, orfistov, Surrealists. It is extremely representative of the modern section (art after 1960). Here are exhibited works of new realists (Arman, César, Deschamps, Klein Ress), art movements Flukus (Ben, Dittmann, Fiyu) movement Figuration narrative (pupa, Erro, Fromanzhe, Shtampfli).

Jewellery Museum - a huge canvas Matisse's "Dance of Paris" and Dufy fresco "fairy electricity", made for the Paris energy management. 250 polychrome panels depicts the history of electricity, from Aristotle to the present day.

In 2010, unknown criminals stole from the museum of five paintings by Picasso, Matisse, Modigliani, Braque and Leger total cost of about 100 million euros. The theft caused a shock among collectors: this level of work, its outstanding in all the catalogs, it is simply impossible to sell.